Radio Show: DICK CLARK COUNTDOWN AMERICA 1/7/89 ROBERTA FLACK & 1983

$

29

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LISTING PICTURE IS A GENERIC PICTURE AND NOT THE ACTUAL SHOW DESCRIBED IN DETAIL BELOW.  SINCE ALL RADIO SHOWS OF THE SAME TITLE LOOK EXACTLY THE SAME, IT IS EASIER TO JUST SHOW A SAMPLE SHOW.  LOOK BELOW FOR EVERYTHING THAT APPEARS ON THIS SHOW!

ALSO, IF YOU BUY ANY FIVE SHOWS AT ONE TIME FROM MY STORE, YOU MAY CHOOSE A SIXTH FREE OF CHARGE .  JUST EMAIL ME THROUGH THE EBAY SYSTEM WITH YOUR CHOICE.  IT IS A GREAT WAY TO SAVE 20% ON YOUR TOTAL ORDER OF QUALITY AMERICANA

AND, REMEMBER I HAVE ONLY ONE SHIPPING CHARGE FOR THE FIRST FOR US BUYERS OR HEAVIEST FOR INTERNATIONAL BUYERS INCLUDING AN EXTRA $8 FOR EACH MULTI LP BOX SET, AND ALL OTHERS SHIP FOR NO EXTRA SHIPPING CHARGE.

SO HERE IS THE BIG QUESTION:  WHAT IS A RADIO SHOW?  WHY COLLECT THEM? WHERE DO THEY COME FROM? 

Well, those are good questions, especially if you have never known of them.

  Radio Shows are syndicated productions by one of several large and small distributors who supply broadcast product to radio stations normally during weekends when the usual air personalities have a break.  Many air on Saturday or Sunday evenings or during overnight segments.  They often feature some of the best known voices for their genre from across the country thus the Dick Clark's and Casey Kasem's and Rick Dees and Dick Bartley and so many others. 

People collect them for various reasons. 

 Some just collect the series because they like it and want them all.

  Some collect their favorite artists or genre of music.  Rather than an album by the artist or a compilation bought at Wal Mart or wherever, they have a unique presentation of their favorite artist or music not available anywhere else and often with dj presentation which is very entertaining. 

 Some collect interviews with their favorite artists as most shows had interview segments. 

 Some collect commercials especially old car commercials but certainly not limited to only those.

AND, these shows are in limited quantity. 

 They were pressed for syndicated stations. Many have just a few in circulation.  Some of the more popular shows may have as many as a few hundred of each week's show that survived but think about it.  A few hundred for some 200 million Americans and millions of overseas collectors who look for unique presentations of their favorite artists or form of music. 

Many or most stations just threw them away after airing because they could never be played again due to the commercial content which was time dated and since most stations had limited storage areas, they just got tossed.

So there are likely very few left of each show.

 This makes them increasingly hard to find. 

 They were first distributed on reel to reel tape if the show goes back that far into the 60's, then later on lp, later on CD and even later (after 2000 for most shows) on CDR.  Now they are not available at all to collectors since they are distributed by digital download much like you get your music from iTunes. 

These shows become rarer and rarer every day because the people who buy them hold on to them and the people who sell them, like me, are running out of them.   My best contact for these shows is flat out of shows for me so I am at the mercy of finding a good deal here and there but never from a regular source.  The shows that you get now and hold on to will never decrease in value and only increase. 

 I have prided myself since the start to provide the best and fairest cost with a no holds barred guarantee that you will be happy or I refund your money.  I sell them for near what I bought them for. As the postal service increases their rates, my shipping rates over the years has decreased.  

And, I have one of the biggest radio show libraries in the world consisting of over ten thousand shows, so many that I don't even know all that I have and am sometimes amazed when I go to look for one show and find another that I did not realize I had.  

Finally, it is Americana at its best.

  Whether the show be from the 60's or 2000's, rock, countdown, oldies, country, classical, religious, jazz or big band, it is unique and home grown. 

 And you just can't find them anywhere.  Even record stores that still exist will rarely have any.   Radio shows are wonderful representations of the real golden age of radio at least music wise. 

 And every  one you buy is  an original, not a copy, not a remake - all limited editions in the hundreds at most and many much less.  Once you get hooked, like me, it is a love affair for life!    Welcome to the Club!    

WHEN WE LOST DICK CLARK, A NATIONAL TREASURE AND ICON.  WE LOST A MAN THAT SO MANY OF US HAD GROWN UP TO AND LEARNED ABOUT THE EVOLUTION OF POP AND ROCK MUSIC FROM.  PLUS HE WAS AN INSPIRATION TO MILLIONS FOR HIS DETERMINATION , COURAGE AND INNER STRENGTH TO PERSEVERE AND GO ON AFTER SUFFERING A DEBILITATING STROKE.  WE STILL TUNED IN EVERY NEW YEAR'S EVE TO SEE DICK AND IF YOU REMEMBER, HIS LAST NEW YEAR'S HE LOOKED AND SOUNDED BETTER THAN AT ANY TIME SINCE HIS STROKE. 

 DICK CLARK MORE THAN ANY OTHER PERSON IN MUSICAL HISTORY DEFINED MUSIC FOR A WHOLE GENERATION OF PEOPLE.  WHAT HE DID COULD NEVER BE REPLICATED. HE WAS A MUSICAL GENIUS AND HUMBLE BESIDES.  HE WAS LIKED BY EVERYONE IN AND OUT OF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY.  WE WILL MISS HIM. 

IN ORDER TO ALLOW AS MANY COLLECTORS AS POSSIBLE TO HAVE A SHOW OF DICK'S FOR THEIR OWN PERSONAL COLLECTION, I AM BEGINNING TODAY TO OFFER THE FEW EXTREMELY RARE DICK CLARK'S COUNTDOWN AMERICA TOP 30 SURVEY  SHOWS THAT REMAIN IN MY DICK CLARK COLLECTION   THIS SERIES WAS DICK'S PREMIER COUNTDOWN SERIES  IT WAS SENT TO STATIONS ONCE WEEKLY!

THE show is a syndicated four hour weekly program from United Stations Radio Network, a company huge in music syndication, and which was partially owned by Dick Clark,  and has featured Dick along with other world renowned dj's since its inception in 1984. 

 All this comes with Dick's soothing trademark voice and his vast expertise which he shares every part of every show.  A show with Dick Clark is like attending a class in music history and in this case world history and you come out of each class ready for the exam on that week.

The show comes on FOUR LP's in new condition, and looking like they were just pressed. I can guarantee to you that these shows were played only on the day of their airing.  I know this because I got them all from a special source who was the station engineer and was given the shows in thanks for all the work that he did for the station.  They have been with him until now when he allowed me to have access to them.  These shows are as new as you can get and they can be yours.  

The cue sheets come with the show in excellent condition.   The album cover is in good condition showing wear from being over 25 years old.

DICK CLARK'S COUNTDOWN AMERICA CONTAINED THE TOP 30 SONGS OF THE WEEK ALONG WITH A FLASHBACK FEATURE WITH HIT SONGS OVER THE PAST TEN YEARS SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE SHOW AND AN ARTIST FEATURE WITH SONGS AND INTERVIEWS BY THAT ARTIST (AND OTHERS AS WELL) SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE SHOW

This show is #167  and aired on JANUARY 7, 1989! 

THE SHOW FEATURED THE TOP 30 SONGS OF THAT WEEK. 

  THE ARTIST FEATURE WAS ROBERTA FLACK

  THE FLASHBACK YEAR WAS 1983 AND DICK WILL COUNT DOWN THE TOP 8 SONGS FROM THIS WEEK OF THAT YEAR.

HERE IS WHAT YOU WILL HEAR ON THIS GREAT, RARE OUTING OF DICK CLARK'S COUNTDOWN AMERICA PRESSED ON VIRGIN VINYL  FOR BEST FIDELITY

FIRST FROM ROBERTA FLACK TRIBUTE:  

Tonight I Celebrate My Love      Killing Me Softly With His Song      The Closer I Get To You      Feel Like Makin' Love                                                                  

FROM THE 1983 TOP 10 TRIBUTE:     

Shame On The Moon- Bob Seger      Love In Store- Fleetwood Mac      The Other Guy- Little River Band      It's Raining Again- Supertramp      You And I- Eddie Rabbitt/Crystal Gayle      You Can't Hurry Love- Phil Collins     Maneater- Hall & Oates Africa- Toto      Heart To Heart- Kenny Loggins      Baby Come To Me- Patti Austin/James Ingram                               

AND NOW THE TOP 30!    

Anchorage- Michelle Shocked      Sweet Potato Pie- James Taylor      She Wants To Dance With Me- Rick Astley      This Time- Neil Diamond      Don't Rush Me- Taylor Dayne      So Good- Al Jarreau      Perfect- Fairground Attraction      All I Ask Of You- Barbara Streisand             

As Long As We Got Each Other- BJ Thomas      Believed You Were Lucky- 'Til Tuesday      All This Time- Tiffany      Look Away- Chicago      If We Hold On Together- Diana Ross      Giving You The Best That I Got- Anita Baker      My Heart Can't Tell You No- Rod Stewart      Baby Can I Hold You- Tracy Chapman        

Wild World- Maxi Priest      Baby I Love Your Way/Freebird- Will To Power      Oasis- Roberta Flack      Soul Searchin'- Glenn Frey      No More Lies- Moody Blues      Holding On- Steve Winwood      Waiting For A Star To Fall- Boy Meets Girl               

New Day For You- Basia      Turn Back The Clock- Johnny Hates Jazz      Put A Little Love In Your Heart- Green/Lennox      I Remember Holding You- Boys Club      Silhouette- Kenny G      As Long As You Follow- Fleetwood Mac      Two Hearts- Phil Collins       

Please note that these shows INCLUDE THEIR CUE SHEETS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.  THE LP's THEMSELVES ARE BEAUTIFUL AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE LISTING.  THEY ARE PRISTINE AND LOOK LIKE THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN AIRED EVER!  THEY HAVE BEEN PLAYED ONLY ONCE, THE DAY THEY WERE AIRED.   

These shows are not only Americana, they are Dick Clark Americana.  

The history of rock and roll and its evolution to today cannot be discussed without Dick Clark entering into the mix again and again.  These shows give you an opportunity to have something that few people in the world can own, Dick Clark on an authentic, rare, mint condition actual radio show.  These shows belong in your collection.

I am pleased to offer these great  and rare shows to you.  It is not only the music but a piece of Americana that most people do not even know about.  It is a piece of radio history you are getting with these shows.  You just aren't going to find these shows anymore.  Think of what they will be worth in a few years!  (IF you wanted to sell.) 

 I am selling to share with other music lovers what I was able to get at a reasonable price.          

Even the commercials are great and fun to listen to and remember they are over 25 years old.  On this show they included:   Cabin Fever      Halls Vitamin      Duration      Lipton      Dodge    AND  MORE!    

 Remember that these shows are disappearing from the market because they are no longer available.  The lp shows have not been made since the early 90's and they have the truest fidelity as you know if you are an audiophile.  The CD shows are now also unavailable as shows are now only in digital downloads.  So, the days of unique shows not copied from the soundboard of a station and sold as such are gone.  This is all there is and will be. 

 It is said that selling radio shows is a vanishing hobby as the shows quickly disappear.  Well, I still sell Betamax machines and they sell quickly whenever I list them so that is not true, but it is true that they will become rarer and harder to find so grab them now while the prices are still reasonable.      

As always, I charge only shipping on the first show you buy for U.S. buyers and  for my international friends pay shipping for the heaviest show and all others ship for no extra charge,  so the more you buy the more money you will save. 

Good Luck and God Bless You.